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area-based: outcome focused
reducing child poverty tactics
aspiring impacts
Dr Stuart Duffin
Centre for Excellence
in Welfare to Work
Influences on Practice I
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Climate of economic and social pressures
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Prevention of long-term dependence on welfare
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The need for parental choice with regard to care of young
children
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Expectation of participation in education, training and
employment
Influences on Practice II
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32,000 children are at risk of poverty -18.8% of all children in Ireland EUSILC,
2011
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2011 Census 215,315 one-parent families in Ireland
26% of all families with children
22% - almost 352,000 - of all children
SILC demonstrated one-parent households are the most deprived 56% classified
as deprived
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Maximising household resources
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Improving children’s wellbeing and life chances
What is said about current
approach?
lack of
commissioning of
services
short-term funding
initiatives
Unclear Role of State
and semi-state
agencies
Bureaucratic
Fragmented
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unresponsive
Too many pilots too
little mainstreaming
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The challenges 1
• Increased risk of poverty due to dependence on welfare
and no spare financial resources
• Tax and welfare traps coupled with transition costs in the
system that deepen poverty and exclusion
• Internal barriers linked to low confidence and selfesteem
• Access to high quality, flexible and affordable childcare
• Low educational attainment arising from early school
leaving and relevance of qualifications and skills to
current labour market requirements
The challenges 2
• Social isolation and lack of personal supports and
networks
• Access to transport to and from education, training and
employment in both urban and rural areas
• Access to affordable quality housing
• Health challenges arising from stress, domestic violence,
legal issues or a poor sense of general well-being
• Reconciling work and family life
Going forward
• Ensuring a positive and equal future for all
members of one-parent families
• Supporting families as they parent through
times of family, work and life change - families
in transition
• Delivering family centred services
• Helping to enable better lives for parents and
children
supports
1. Focused specialist family support for
progression to education, skill development
and employment
2. Provision of expert parenting and family
support to those parenting alone or sharing
parenting
3. Tailored Reponses
Welfare to Work
• Steps 2 New Futures
Phase 1
• 10 weeks, 45 hours, 5 coaching sessions 2 x level 3 FETAC
• New Futures
Phase 2
• 14 weeks, 84 hours , 7 mentoring sessions 2 x level 4 FETAC
• PASSPort to education
Phase 3
• 4 weeks, 12 hours, 2 mentoring sessions, 1 level 5 FETAC and 1 level 4 FETAC
from activation to welfare to work
• Options Programmes
– delivers accredited programmes which cover the following areas: Enterprise
Skills; Work Trials; Customer Care; Essential Skills; Social Care, and others
giving those parents enhanced skills for the labour-market
• careerclinic
– a proactive and creative approach ,7 steps careerclinic provides
participants with practical support and advice on:
• career review, assessment and guidance
• CV preparation
• interview techniques
• how to capitalise on transferable skills in order to find
employment
• challenges and solutions in parenting alone
Information
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Social welfare queries
Family law issues
Parenting
Childcare
Education and employment
Finances
Community supports and services
Parenting and Family Support
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Positive Parenting
Family Communications
Child Contact Centre
Dads’ Workshops
Shared Parenting
Parent Mentoring
Solution focused counselling
General counselling
Play therapy
Our model
• Identification of problem
Step 1
• Client work
Consultation
Evidence-based research
Policy analysis
• Service response
Step 2
• Develop response
Pilot response
Evaluate
Revise
• Mainstream
Step 3
• Pilot with mainstream agencies
Roll out training products
Quality assurance
new ideas that create value
delivering a climate for inspiration
“……….enterprise and innovation are the
engines of growth in the social economy”
The actions
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Challenge -- doing things differently
Customer Focus -- creating value
Creativity – generate possibilities
Communication -- open communication
Collaboration -- feed on interaction
Completion -- strong implementation
Contemplation -- gleaning the lessons
the mix
How do we
ensure
provision?
What is needed to
deliver for
stakeholders?
How to
ensure
quality of
outcomes?
facilitating and meeting needs
drivers-entryways to
inspiring practice
change
reinvention
redesign
ideas
trends
renewal
passion
Principles & asset base
• Long term approach has three
underpinning principles:
– Early intervention and
prevention: breaking cycles of
poor outcomes
– Building on the assets of
individuals and communities:
moving away from a focus on
deficits
– Ensuring that children and
families needs are at the
centre of service design and
delivery.
• The principles of assets-based
approaches include:
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Emphasising and supporting assets which
enhance the ability of individuals, families
and neighbourhoods to sustain health and
wellbeing;
Starting with what is working and what
people care about;
Building networks, friendships, self-esteem
and feelings of personal and collective
effectiveness and connectedness; promote
health and wellbeing, enable people to
make sense of their environment, help
them take control of their lives; and
Individuals and communities working with
service providers to co-produce
interventions and self-manage
programmes of change.
goals & tasks
• maximise household
resources in order to
ensure that as few
children grow up in
poor households as
possible.
• key outcomes:
– Less families are in income
poverty/material deprivation
(including in-work poverty)
– More parents are in good
quality employment
– More families are financially
capable and included
10-Point Anti-Poverty Strategy
Summary:
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Monitoring and recording
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Community participation
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Community-based approaches
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Integration into mainstream
programmes
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Recognition of limitations:
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Partnerships
Where to find us
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